When the town is inexplicably overrun with zombies, Shaun must rise to the occasion and protect both Liz and his mother (Penelope Wilton).Ģ8 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. The only unpredictable element in his life is his girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield), who wishes desperately for Shaun to grow up and be a man. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives with his slovenly best friend, Ed (Nick Frost), in a small flat on the outskirts of London. Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. The Winchester Tavern pub location was actually the Duke of Albany pub in New Cross, South London, which is a Victorian pub that got turned into flats in 2008. The shop where Shaun works is a real shop in North Finchley. Shaun of the Dead was filmed in London, at Ealing Studios, and on location around North London, including Crouch End, Highgate, Finsbury Park, and East Finchley. The film was done on a budget of $6.1 million, and grossed over $30 million. The film also stars Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton. Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 horror comedy film directed by Edgar Wright who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg who plays Shaun in the film. Thanks, and please don’t forget to share the list with anyone you think might appreciate it, such as fans of zombie, horror, or just British films in general. I made the list votable so that people can use the up and down voting arrows if they wish, for voting up the movies they like, and downvoting any they dislike. Please feel free to use the comments section to let us know your favourite British zombie movie, or if there’s a British zombie film that you know of that is not on the list, please let me know in the main comments section so that I can add it, thank you. In the below list you will find every British zombie film that I know of, along with locational information (where available), a short synopsis of each movie and some other info for additional interest such as director/actors etc. This brings the whole zombie doomsday scenario right to our front door, so that the ‘what if it happened to me’ becomes all the more easy to imagine, and lets face it, we all like to imagine how we’d do in such a nightmarish scenario, how we’d survive, if we’d survive, and seeing places and hearing accents we are familiar with makes it all the more easier to do, adding another level to British zombie films that other films made elsewhere just can’t match. ![]() However, its not just this new breed of zombie (or zombie-like creature) that makes Boyles films so watchable from a British perspective, but those incredible opening scenes of a deserted London, with Big Ben and Westminster as part of the apocalyptic landscape, places we know and love and call home. Other non-British films were soon to follow, such as World War Z, and Train to Busan, where the zombies all moved at a terrifying rate of knots making them all the more frightening to audiences around the world. Indeed British director Danny Boyle’s 2002 classic 28 Days Later was seen as re-invigorating the whole zombie genre itself, as Boyle took the normally slow moving, cumbersome zombie, took off its slippers and put on its fastest running shoes, essentially turbo-charging zombies and taking them up a few good levels on the shit-your-pants-terrifying scale. There have been some fantastic British Zombie films over the years, from the early hammer films such as the 1966 The Plague of the Zombies (set around a Cornish tin mine) to more recent offerings such as the brilliant 28 Days Later and its stunning sequel.
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